Detail from 'The Illustrated London News', painting of a poppy flower by Hans Simon Holtzbecker ... was describing the laborious process of manufacturing opium, a drug that, among other ...

Ancient Greeks associated poppies with abundance and fertility; in Ancient Egyptian art ... used opium for medicinal as well as ritualistic purposes. The California poppy is the state flower ...

experts have suspected these vessels were specially made for opium. Their long necks resemble an inverted poppy seed head, and there are painted white stripes that suggest the flower’s milky ...

British authorities did not annex the region until the early 1800s, and when they tried to protect their monopoly by banning opium farming, the poppy defied them: Flowers continued to grow ...

A deadly flower might seem curious at first, but poppies, of course, are no ordinary bloom. L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, grew up and lived in a world where the poppy and ...

However, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is a traditional grower of the opium poppy flower that during the 90’s cut back its production amid fears that its crop could be used to ...

The poppy flower plant produces opium, which is what led the researchers to test the late Bronze Age artifacts for drug residue. Now, their findings are the subject of a new study published in the ...